Sedona & Raw Chocolate Charade

A Chocolate Preface:Although many people think of Hershey’s or Mars chocolates as the regular run of the mill “goto” chocolates, that may be the case if you are shopping at your local gas station or convenance store. Perhaps you are a fan go Godiva, Dove, Lindt, or Ghirardelli chocolates. For me, and this is just my opinion, from a self proclaimed REAL and PURE chocolate lover, consumer, and raw chocolate maker; those chocolates are mere candy. The chocolates available to you in Sedona and on our tours are leaps and bounds above candy, for they a superfoods. If you are not sure what a superfood is, then you are in for a big and exciting surprise. These chocolates, unlike candy are actually healthy for you. Whereas candy is typically cooked, uses refined sugars, is full of milk, and other ingredients that you may have trouble pronouncing; the chocolate made in Sedona is quite different on every level.

First and foremost it is raw. What does that mean you may wonder? Well by consuming raw chocolate, that means the cacao isn’t heated above 108 degrees F during the creation process. By keeping it at a lower temperature, the “good for you” qualities of the cacao remain intact. The most commonly known one is that raw dark chocolate is very high in antioxidants which is really good for you. Though in reality, that is only the tip of the iceberg as they say. There are over 144 health benefits to eating raw chocolate.

Being raw is only part of the health benefits. It’s organic which speaks for itself. It’s gluten free, soy free, chemical free, dairy free. Meaning it is free of all the stuff you don’t want in your chocolate and full of all the things you do want. Natural ingredients. Things like maca, lacuma, goji berries, bee pollen, schizandra, chaga or reishi mushrooms are all in the chocolates you will find in Sedona. This may sound like foreign ingredients to you, but each offers an array of health benefits.

Furthermore, whereas most common candies that call themselves chocolate use refined sugars as the sweetners. This is really bad for it causes tooth decay and spikes your blood sugar making many more prone tor diabetes. Sedona chocolatiers take a different approach. By using things like raw honey, coconut sugar, stevia, xylitol, agave syrup, and other natural sweetners, the end result is a chocolate that comes out to be low glycemic. This is healthier for you.

Do you enjoy milk? Perhaps. Though put it in chocolate and it just goes downhill in terms of quality. Although, I expect that many of my customers do enjoy milk, in reality it is very bad for you. It meant for baby cows to drink, not humans. You put it in chocolate and it’s just no good. For this of you that do enjoy dark chocolate, you will love our chocolate! It dark and delicious.

Finally, most mainstream chocolates, I mean candies have a lot of ingredients that you nor I can pronounce, nonetheless get our head around what it is adctiually doing in our chocolate. Preservatives, artificial flavors, coloring agents, emulsifiers, and loads of other junk are all in these candies. You won’t find any of this in the chocolates made in Sedona. The chocolates here are all hand made by people not giant machines, who truly care about the quality of the products they are making. By taking chocolate making to a pure level, the end result is not candy, but something that is actually healthy. Really!

So join us for one of our Raw Chocolate Tours, where you will not only learn about the geological wonders of why our rocks are red, but also get to enjoy some of the most delicious and nutritious chocolates available to man.